Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Bessie Rayner Parkes
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Standard Name: Parkes, Bessie Rayner
Birth Name: Elizabeth Rayner Parkes
Nickname: Bessie
Married Name: Elizabeth Rayner Belloc
Bessie Rayner Parkes (later Belloc)
, a late nineteenth-century feminist, focused her writings especially on issues relating to women's work. During her life she published a collection of miscellaneous essays, a collection of vignettes, numerous articles in periodicals, a travel book, and political treatises. Though her feminist writings have been better recognized, her passion was poetry. She published a lengthy philosophical poem in addition to three volumes of poems, some of which were later compiled into a collection.
Working on the English Woman's Journal strengthened MH
's connection to members of the Langham Place Group
. The tie that she formed with with Theodosia, Lady Monson
, lasted into her obscure later years...
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
183, 16
Friends, Associates
Emily Faithfull
EF
suffered in various ways as a result of the trial. The sense that she had prevaricated, at the very least, alienated many of her associates on The English Woman's Journal, including Emily Davies
Friends, Associates
Emily Davies
When, late in life, she forbade the writing of an intimate biography but expressed her willingness that a sketch should be written, she thought such a sketch might advantageously cover both herself and Madame Bodichon...
Family biographer Carl Ray Woodring numbers AMH
with a group of Pre-Raphaelite sisters, including Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Margaret Gillies
, who associated themselves with innovation in...
Friends, Associates
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
In May 1869 George Eliot
recorded in her diary Bodichon's steady friendship at the time when G. H. Lewes
's son Thornie
was dying of tuberculosis of the spine. Bodichon visited twice a week and...
Friends, Associates
George Eliot
Bessie Rayner Parkes
(already a friend of Marian Evans—later GE
) introduced her to Barbara Leigh Smith
, who became her close confidant and supporter.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton.
136
Friends, Associates
Edith J. Simcox
Elma Stuart
, who had also been an intimate friend of George Eliot
, became a close friend of EJS
. In March 1881 they spent a week together at Malvern, where they exchanged...
Friends, Associates
Jessie Boucherett
Partly through her membership of the Kensington Society
(a social and political discussion group of about fifty women inaugurated in 1865), JB
broadened her acquaintance with significant members of the feminist movement, including Frances Power Cobbe
Friends, Associates
George Eliot
Some of her closest friends were prominent feminists, and they were among those soonest willing to flout convention and visit her after her union to Lewes.
Despite the social and spiritual gulf between them, GE
Friends, Associates
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
During the 1860s she and her husband formed a friendship with Bessie Rayner Parkes
.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
MH
served on the reception committee for Harriet Beecher Stowe
at the time of her visit to England in April 1853. She had by that time become friendly with titled people and with members of...